A very long 8hr bus journey

Today its time to leave the ranch .The owner ,Cynthia took me on the 1.5hr drive to the bus collection point, which is the Esso petrol station in Kamloops.
En route we passed the copper mine which has a dome, with the world's largest Canadian flag on it apparently according to the Guiness book of records.
We arrived in Kamloops in good time and grabbed a brew and muffin from Tim Hortons.
The journey on the bus 🚌 was reasonable and the lovely scenery helped ..We stopped and picked up and dropped off people in the most unlikely places ...often petrol stations .Apart from these stops the drive continued for 6hrs without a proper break..This concerns me ,in terms of driver fatigue.
A young couple sat behind me for part of the journey. It turns out they were from Macclesfield .They'd been working in Canada for 2yrs and were on their way back to the UK.
Overall there appears to be less Uk young people working in Canada than in Nz
I arrived in Banff at 10pm .The place was really quiet. I called a taxi and arrived at my hotel..The door was locked and noone on reception..! The taxi driver knew that my hotel and the adjacent one were owned by the same company, so he took me next door. Problem solved and a full 12hrs after Id left the ranch at 11am ....I arrived in my hotel room in Banff
The receptionist made me anxious trying to describe how I should get to the ground floor overnight, as he was inexplicably going to stop the lift function overnight..Anyway I was too tired to really care,but made sure I checked out what he meant.
Photos are from my journey in the car ,and on the Canadian highway.Read more